Begging for a response from an LPN

[Shelby Cravens]

I am needing at least 1 response from an LPN for a paper I am doing for my Foundations class. Can anyone help me? One million "Thanks".

1.Please describe # of years/type of educational experience

2.Please describe the different roles in which you have worked in healthcare.

3.How is professionalism incorporated in your role as a nurse?

4.What advice would you offer to a person beginning in the nursing profession?

5.What advice would you offer for a nursing student working toward the completion of their degree?

Any additional info. you would feel compelled to share would be a bonus! Thank you so much!

[nursemon]

Congrats on becoming a nurse! Here's some answers I hope will help:

1. Have been an LPN for 5 years (and am currently in school to obtain my RN)

2. I have done school nurse, med-surg nursing and labor delivery/mother-baby nursing

4. Be open for anything, any kind of experience. I would definately get med-surg experience first because that is a good foundation to have prior to moving onto anything else.

5. My advice would be to obtain all the knowledge you can, but do not stress out if you don't know every little thing. My experience has been that you get your knowledge base from your education but you get the bigger picture and you gain more of your knowledge and experience from working.

Good luck to you~!!!

[Lorie P.]

i am needing at least 1 response from an lpn for a paper i am doing for my foundations class. can anyone help me? one million "thanks".

1.please describe # of years/type of educational experience

5 years as a lpn with an aa health care management, working on asn for rn.

2.please describe the different roles in which you have worked in healthcare.

med/surge, private duty peds, ortho/neuro

3.how is professionalism incorporated in your role as a nurse?

as a private duty nurse i have more automony as a nurse and an advocate for both my pt and the family.

4.what advice would you offer to a person beginning in the nursing profession?

see if you can shadow a nurse or a tech and see the reality of "nursing" and not the text book verson.

5.what advice would you offer for a nursing student working toward the completion of their degree?

realize that you will not learn everything in school, most skills are learned in the first 1-2 years of being a nurse. make sure you make time for "down time" and don't spend all your time strictly for learning. take a night off from study every now and again.

i hope this helps and good luck to you! remember every day in nursing is a learning experience!